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Divergent Cultural Characteristics
The three divergent cultural characteristics that I have chosen are; Individualist vs Collectivist, Explicit Rule vs Implicit Rule, and Time Orientation (Short-term vs Long-term) (McLean, 2010).
Individualist vs Collectivist
The Individualist Culture promotes personal liberty with a self-governing mindset. Though problems exist, this culture emphasizes achievement and discovery of ways to penetrate challenging situations. Choices can be made to address problems alone or seek mentorship and support. It is important to live a fulfilling life (McLean, 2010).
Collectivist cultures consider other first. Life isn’t just about you. What you do impacts family, neighbors and communities. Behaviors should be evaluated
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Schools, workplaces and home require schedules and structure to accomplish daily plans. Project require planning stages that will help complete tasks in an effective manner.
Time Orientation (Short Term vs Long Term)
Short Orientation focuses on immediate satisfaction. Outcomes are desired as soon as possible. If someone cannot get what they want as soon as they want it, frustration will emerge.
Long Term Orientation involves perseverance and endurance. Meditation and consideration are disciplines applied before decisions are. Dedication to work and projects can consume months or years (McLean, 2010).
Short Term Orientation is a part of my culture. There are mandates for various activities, especially at school and work. Classes and meeting have set times. Meal times and breaks must be completed within certain timeframes. There is often a lot of pressure to work within establish schedules and get the required results.
When compare myself to fellow peers and their cultures, a lot of disagreements can occur. Various cultures have different perspectives, but when I am willing to listen, discuss and seek understanding a phenomenally rich experience is the
There are several different types of schedules that can be as simple as a “To do List” or as complex as a plan for a construction project.
Individualism is a habit of being self- reliant. A cultural value is a persons desired and preferred way of acting. Every culture has their own cultural values and individualism but whether individualism is their cultural value is up to the person entirely. This could pose a conflict when persuading the wrong culture especially a culture as diverse as the American culture. Poranee Sponsel is a born and raised Thai who is now a professor at a university in Hawaii and gives us the outsider’s perspective of the American culture. In Sponsel’s article “The Young, the Rich, and the Famous: Individualism as an American Cultural value” Sponsel
Individualism is having our own thoughts, our own lives, and our own bodies. I believe that, that is super important for us human beings. There is a great quote that I came across on individualism by a man named Douglass, I don’t honestly want to put all of that here but there is a part of it where he says “I am myself; you are yourself; we are two distinct persons, equal persons.” I think in all honestly this completely sums up individualism. We are all our own people, which is how we should be living, with our own lives (all according to individualism of
Eric Mack’s essay “In Defense of Individualism” provides a basic outlook of individualistic personalities and interactions that are prevalent throughout society. Mack gives definitions of different theories in individualism, breaking the encompassing thought
In the individualistic subculture, there are many ways that it can differ from that of the moralistic and the traditionalistic subcultures. The way that people can differentiate them is by knowing the characteristics of each of them. In the individualistic subcultures,
In America and other countries of similar and contrasting cultures, we like to be right, we like to be on top, and we want to be recognized for both respectively. Competition is an underlying theme in so much of what we do in our daily lives. Whether it’s getting a better grade on a test than your friend, winning a football game or even speeding up faster than the car next to you when the light turns green. Competition, whether we like it or not, surrounds us and we participate in it willingly. We all want to stand on that podium and receive the gold medal, for then we are better than someone else and we can look down upon him or her because we have achieved something they have not. This competition and trying to be better than the person
Do you stand alone as a unique and special individual? Since the beginning of American history there have been struggles for individualism. The American Revolution, the American Civil War, and the separation from family life are all examples of individualism in American history. Individualism is an American paradigm designed by the modern societal structure that is an altered idea of the foundation by immigrants. In today’s society the struggle for individualism is more personal and represents how American values have shifted since the beginning of American history.
Looking at the chart the first dimension of culture plotted is individualism-collectivism. This dimension addresses how people define themselves and their relationships with others. Cultures that fall on the individualism side of the continuum share four characteristics. First, such cultures consider the individual to be the most important entity in any social setting. Second, individualistic cultures stress independence rather than dependence. Third, individualistic cultures reward individual achievement. The last characteristic is; individualistic cultures value each individual’s uniqueness.
There are many cultural differences between the United States and France. Some of these are simply social and others are cultural. Hofstede’s Value Dimensions can be used to highlight the differences between the cultures. Individualism vs collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity/femininity, power distance, and long-term vs short-term orientation are all characteristics that differ between France and the United States.
Individualistic cultures tend to favor feeling free and less responsible for the members around them. In class, we discussed our own experiences of living in an individualistic culture. For example, if a parent were to become ill and more dependent, it is not uncommon for the children to send the parent to a nursing home. The ill parent would feel embarrassed if their child had to help them use a restroom or bathe themselves.Whereas, in a collectivism
| The fundamental issue addressed by this dimension is the degree of interdependence a society maintains among its members. It has to do with whether people´s self-image is defined in terms of “I” or “We”. In Individualist societies people are supposed to look after themselves and their direct family only. In Collectivist societies people belong to ‘in
Using Hofstede’s four cultural dimensions as a point of reference, what are some of the main cultural differences between the United States and France?
When comparing cultures, one must form a definition of what culture is. Culture can be easily defined as the social behavior and normality’s found in human societies. It can also be easily made up of a composed arrangement of educated conduct and thought designs. Culture is a sorted out framework since it includes many parts. Throughout the world, there are many cultures that are both very different and also very similar. "Culture encompasses religion, food, what we wear, how we wear it, our language, marriage, music, what we believe is right or wrong, how we sit at table, how we greet visitors, how we behave and one million other things." (Cristina De Rossi.)
It is rightly said "Time and Tide wait for none". An individual should understand the value of time for him to succeed in all aspects of life. People who waste time are the ones who fail to create an identity of their own.
Expanding on that, a person is immeresed in his/her culture since birth, and has no choice but to adopt the values necessary to survive. An individualistic community encourages a person to make his/her own choices; moreover, one would be less concerned about the “we” and more concerned about the “I”. This lowers conformity levels, because each person is willing to do what he/she wants and is more concerned about self-surival than harmony in the community. A strength of this study could be participant variability because it eliminates the possibility of this behavior only being limited to one type of person/community. Accordingly, a limitation could be the lack of ecological validity (one will not be asked to identify the length of a line in real life), and the multitude of confounding variables including the time and place, which could influence the results. Overall, the study demonstrates how individualism affects behavior, since a person who demonstrates indivdualistic behavior would exhibit less conformity, as seen above.